C23B:
Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow and Snow Processes III Posters

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Session ID#: 13110

Session Description:
Snow properties in seasonal and perennial snow environments vary over many orders of spatial and temporal magnitude and at a wide range of scales.  Large variations in bulk properties, such as snow depth, snow water equivalent, and impurity content can occur over distances less than 100 meters and time scales of minutes to hours, complicating measurement and modeling efforts.  Topography and vegetation combine with variability in precipitation, wind, and melt to create a complex distribution of snow properties across the landscape and through time.  This session will focus on studies which quantify spatial and temporal variations in snow and snow-related processes at medium to large scales for a wide range of problems, including snow hydrology, snow avalanches, and remote sensing or modeling efforts.
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Ernesto Trujillo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland and Steven R Fassnacht, Colorado State University, Watershed Science, Fort Collins, United States
Chairs:  Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
0742 Avalanches [CRYOSPHERE]
1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Canopy Effects on Snow Sublimation from an Arid Basin (123968)
Bohumil Svoma, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Characterizing Ephemeral Snowpacks in the Great Basin (181791)
Rose Sarah Petersky, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
The role of topography on snow dynamics: observations from Aqua/Terra MODIS and perspectives for future hydrologic and climate modeling (121068)
Pierfrancesco Da Ronco1, Carlo De Michele1, Francesco Avanzi2 and Bettina Schaefli3, (1)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, 20133, Italy, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
The structures of the west coastal snowfall of the Korean peninsula (179252)
Seokmin Hong, Kongju National University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Gongju, Korea, Republic of (South) and Eun-Chul Chang, Kongju National University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Gongju, South Korea
Inter-annual Variability of Snowfall in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, USA (182338)
Lei Meng, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
A comparison of three lake models in simulating lake effect snowfall over the U.S. Great Lakes Region (161902)
Arthur N Samel, Bowling Green State University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green, OH, United States, Dr. Min Xu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Xin-Zhong Liang, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science & Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States
Spatiotemporal Variability and in Snow Phenology over Eurasian Continent druing 1966-2012 (133447)
Xinyue Zhong1, Tingjun Zhang2, Kang Wang3, Lei Zheng4 and Huijuan Wang2, (1)Northwest Insitute of Eco-Environment and Resources,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (3)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Wuhan University, Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan, China
The Andes Snow Climatology: Insights From a Landsat-era Snow Reanalysis (161719)
Gonzalo Cortés, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Steven A Margulis, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Historic Record and Drivers of Snow Depth in Western Alaska (163153)
Lily Cohen1, Jessica E Cherry2, Robert Busey1, Vladimir E Romanovsky3, Bob Bolton4 and Cathy Jean Wilson5, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information, Anchorage, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Quantifying spatial variability of AgI cloud seeding benefits and Ag enrichments in snow (127616)
James Fisher1, Shawn Benner2, Marion L Lytle3, Melvin L Kunkel4, Derek Blestrud4, Vincent Patrick Holbrook4, Shaun Parkinson4 and Ross Edwards5, (1)Tulare Irrigation District, Tulare, CA, United States, (2)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Boise State University, Dept. of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (4)Idaho Power Company, Boise, ID, United States, (5)Curtin University, Department of Imaging and Applied Physics, Perth, Australia
Producing a long-term baseline snow depth distribution from 45 snow-on lidar surveys over a large mountain basin (129434)
Andrew R Hedrick1, Danny G Marks2, Scott Havens2, Patrick Kormos2, Hans-Peter Marshall3, Kathryn J Bormann4 and Thomas H Painter4, (1)USDA Agricultural Research Service, Boise, ID, United States, (2)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
A New Study of Mountain Snowpack through Graph Spectral Analysis (164973)
Joel Agustin Gongora, Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
How fine is a fine model scale for process-based snow modeling? (190799)
Mohammad Sohrabi1, Rohan M Benjankar2, Charles H Luce3, Mukesh Kumar4, Danny G Marks5, Patrick Kormos5 and Daniele Tonina2, (1)Univercity of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Department of Civil Engineering, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID, United States, (4)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States, (5)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Role of Temporal Resolution of Meteorological Forcing on Snow Model Errors (183110)
Yifan Zhou, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and Mukesh Kumar, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States
A New Snow Density Parameterization for Land Data Assimilation (124104)
Nicholas Dawson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Patrick D Broxton, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States and Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
The Spatial Distribution of Fine Resolution Snow Surface Roughness (131383)
Eric Sam Thomas, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Snow surface erosion measurements in a cold wind tunnel (140301)
Philip Crivelli1, Enrico Paterna1 and Michael Lehning2, (1)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (2)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Development of low-cost meteorological observation system based on wireless network for poor-visibility occurred by snowstorm (144480)
Yui Kobayashi1, Kyoya Watanabe1, Masataka Imai2, Kensuke Watanabe2, Nobuyasu Naruse3 and Yukihiro Takahashi1, (1)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (2)Graduate School of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (3)Hokkaido University, Global Science Campus and Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education, Sapporo, Japan
Multi-point meteorological observation for Cross-country skiing (173499)
Kazuyuki Ikeda1, Okami Tadashi1, Shohsi Kawarabayashi1, Nana Iwadate1, Yui Kobayashi1, Kyoya Watanabe1, Masataka Imai2, Kensuke Watanabe2, Nobuyasu Naruse3 and Yukihiro Takahashi1, (1)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (2)Graduate School of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (3)Hokkaido University, Global Science Campus and Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education, Sapporo, Japan
Snow Water Equivalent and Root Zone Soil Moisture Retrieval using P-band Passive Bistatic Radar (168509)
Rashmi Shah1, Simon H Yueh2, Xiaolan Xu2, Kelly Elder3, Chun-Sik Chae1 and Marc Simard4, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)US Forest Service Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Ground-Truthing a Next Generation Snow Radar (184348)
Stephen Yan1, John M Brozena2, Prasad S Gogineni3, Andrei Abelev4, Joan M Gardner2, David Ball5, Robert Liang6 and Thomas Newman7, (1)Remote Sensing Center, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, KS, United States, (4)US Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Harris Corporation, Herndon, VA, United States, (6)US Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, D.C., United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Subpixel Snow-covered Area Including Differentiated Grain Size from AVIRIS Data Over the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range (186224)
Ryley Hill, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Wendy M Calvin, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States and Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
Blowing Snow Detection and Speed Estimation in Antarctica Using ZY-3 Multi-view Satellite Images (176405)
Shijie Liu1, Xiaohua Tong1, Chenxi Wu1, Rongxing Li2, Huan Xie1 and Center for Spatial Information Science and Sustainable Development, (1)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (2)Tongji University, Center for Spatial Information Science and Sustainable Development Applications and College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Shanghai, China

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